News track Live presents the 90th Annual academy award ceremony winners. They were held at the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood and Highland Centre in Hollywood, California. The Academy Awards is an annual ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy awards is a 6,000-strong group made up of film industry professionals such as actors, directors and producers, making the awards stand-out against shows such as the Golden Globes as it is a vote by the nominees' peers.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP – Darkest Hour. No surprise; the rare old-age makeup that was totally convincing and always on-camera. First winners to thank their cats.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN – Phantom Thread. A bit of a surprise, but the movie is all about costumes, after all.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – Icarus.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – The Shape of Water.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – A Fantastic Woman. From Chile. Not sure many people had that one in their pool, but if you did, you just shot ahead.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Allison Janney, I Tonya. Tough, tough competition in this field. No doubt she was good, but so were all of them.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT – Dear Basketball. Kobe Bryant wins an Oscar! He says as a basketball player he’s supposed to shut up and dribble, but tonight he can do more than that, and thanks his family.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – Coco. Filmmakers thank their spouses, two of whom are same-sex. “Marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong. Representation matters.”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – Blade Runner 2049. It won one! CGI Sean Young beats out two different CGI Andy Serkises.
BEST EDITING – Dunkirk. No surprise. Three storylines and time-cheats made coherent is an obvious win.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT – Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405. A title every Angeleno must only assume is ironic somehow.
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT – The Silent Child. Short film about deafness, so the acceptance speech is signed as well as spoken, with a plea for awareness despite the fact that deafness isn’t life-threatening.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – Call Me By Your Name. James Ivory thanks all his colleagues who are no longer with us, and says by honoring him you’re honoring them.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Blade Runner 2049. Yes, Roger Deakins finally gets it after 14 nominations. Says he’d better say something or else they’ll give him a jet ski, and he doesn’t want one.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – The Shape of Water. Perennial winner Alexandre Desplat congratulates his mother for also being 90, and dedicates the win to his daughters.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG – “Remember Me” from Coco. Same writers as “Let It Go.”
BEST DIRECTOR – Guillermo del Toro! The Shape of Water. Nothing “fishy” about this win, except everything in the movie, of course. He talks about loving to live all over the place, and we should erase lines in the sand instead of making them deeper. But of all the places he’s lived, he likes to live at Fox Searchlight the best because they greenlit this crazy movie.
BEST ACTOR – Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour. He tells director Joe Wright it only took them 20 years to work together, but it was worth the wait. Close by saluting Sir Winston Churchill for being a marvelous companion, and his wife for being at his side. Obviously, he notes, he won’t win the jet ski, so he congratulates his mother, who is about to turn 99, and thanks her for her love and support.
BEST ACTRESS – Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Ya, you bet’cha. McDormand says that if she falls over, somebody pick her up because she has something to say. Thanks her husband and son for being well-raised by their feminist mothers.
BEST PICTURE – The Shape of Water. Del Toro double-checks the envelope just to be sure. He says Spielberg told him that if you win and get up to the podium, remember that you’re part of a legacy. =
